Some Creative Writing
Every so often, I have an idea for a writing prompt, and over the years they’ve finally built up to a critical mass deserving of a blog post. The following are a bunch of beginnings of short stories, which I...
A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
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Every so often, I have an idea for a writing prompt, and over the years they’ve finally built up to a critical mass deserving of a blog post. The following are a bunch of beginnings of short stories, which I...
You probably know the drill by now. Here are some photos of some new birds I’ve taken since last time. I think I’m getting relatively close to having seen every common bird in my area–soon I’ll have to work a...
This is a total break from my usual paleontology content, but bear with me, because I think this topic is really interesting, fun, and useful.
Take a moment and think of the myriad lifestyles different birds live. Some are flightless, swift-running herbivores; some are terrifying aerial hunters; some dive for fish; some nab insects on the wing; et cetera et cetera. Many of these niches...
The world we inhabit and interact with on a daily basis, the world of megafauna, is far from the only world there is. At other size scales, there are layers upon layers of other worlds that we don’t notice, that...